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Or 9881

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Or 9881
Title:
Biblical fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
20 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9881 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1100-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9881

Biblical fragments

Contents

Three fragments of the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-20v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
ff. 1r-1v
Title: Shemot
Title: שמות

Fragments of Exodus, chapters 37:14-39:2 only.

ff. 2r-3v
Title: Ṿa-yiḳra
Title: ויקרא

Leviticus, chapters 1:16-4:25 only.

ff. 4r-20v
Title: Bereshit-Shemot
Title: בראשית-שמות

Fragments of Genesis, chapters 50:19-50:26, and Exodus, chapters 1:1-7:12, 8:14-12:9, 15:26-27:2.

Physical Description

Parts of parchment codices of the 12th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 20 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 385 × 305 mm.
Dimensions (written): 320 × 275 mm.
Foliation:

20 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Leaves restored on modern paper (modern restoration).

Condition

Fragments extremely damaged by damp and mould.

Dark staining.

Repaired and inlaid before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 20 23

Written lines: 20 23

Non-uniform layout.

Complete ruling by hard-point visible.

Traces of pricking on the outer margins only.

Masorah magna and parva variously executed.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 16th century and Oriental square script of the 12th to 13th century.

ff. 1r-3v
: Yemenite square script,
ff. 4r-20v
: Oriental square script.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Biblical Fragments. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 9881.'

History

Origin: 12th-16th century ; Yemen and Palestine?

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 149; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed, [21v].

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9881 (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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